Is this DVD unrippable?

[OldNick]

.OK. I bought a DVD...Easy Rider 40th anniversary. I want to cvopy it to my PC for playing.

First effort was to simply copy the DVD files to my HDD.Filed due yto encryprion.
Next tr4y Handbrake.It worked, but when I watched the DVD, it was not exactly pixelated, but was all chopped up in the video when played in VLC.
So I tried VLC as the ripper.VLC would not recognise rhe contecnt of the result.
So I tried Freemake and asked to rip a DVD to H264 (MP4). Thios gave nice clear output, butr the only volumes available to watch were Title1 and Title 2. Both of them were just "features" where a pile of people talked about the making of the movie.

So is all this downb to copy protection (in which case I will bin the DVD and never buy another from that company) Or is there a wy to get a result?

In handbrake I pretty much used stock settings. In VLC I seemed to have little choice. Same in Freemake

Thanks for any help.

[Baldrick]

Have you tried a good/real dvd ripper? Like anydvd, dvdfab decrypter, dvdfab passkey or makemkv?

Then convert it to mp4 with handbrake, vidcoder, etc.

[OldNick]

OK...Bob... I will give that a go. If I get it ripped as a DVD to Audio and Video, unconverted, thge rest is really not needed. All of myother DVDs are simply images. TRhis is the first one to give me this grief

Nick

[OldNick]

OK. Your reccommendations all behaved like crap for me, many of them wanted money. I have ONE DVD that is giving me grief. Every time anyone asks about DVD rippuing trouble there are a host of replies about this and that programme, whicj ALL give trouble to various peoiple.

Now. Are there DVDs that behave likme I describe as a way of protection. THAT is my question.

Kay?

[hech54]

OK. Your reccommendations all behaved like crap for me, many of them wanted money. I have ONE DVD that is giving me grief. Every time anyone asks about DVD rippuing trouble there are a host of replies about this and that programme, whicj ALL give trouble to various peoiple.

Now. Are there DVDs that behave likme I describe as a way of protection. THAT is my question.

Kay?

ALL store bought, factory pressed, Hollywood DVDs have copy protection of some sort.
HandBrake has NEVER been able to defeat the built-in copy protections of store bought DVDs.
"RIPPING" is an exact copy of a DVD....minus the copy protection.
HandBrake is an encoder(re-encoder).
There are free portions of DVDFab (called DVDFabDecrypter) inside the DVDFab program.
MakeMKV is also FREE(when it expires you download it again).

[usually_quiet]

DVDFab Passkey (with a lifetime subscription) can also be downloaded at no charge until Dec 7.

[october262]

OK. Your reccommendations all behaved like crap for me, many of them wanted money. I have ONE DVD that is giving me grief. Every time anyone asks about DVD rippuing trouble there are a host of replies about this and that programme, whicj ALL give trouble to various peoiple.

Now. Are there DVDs that behave likme I describe as a way of protection. THAT is my question.

Kay?

can you describe the error you get when you use dvdfab??
the paid/registered version of dvdfab should open this disc without any problem.

[hech54]

DVDFab Passkey (with a lifetime subscription) can also be downloaded at no charge until Dec 7.

GREAT program so far. I like it better than AnyDVD. Just be careful installing so you don't install adware.

[Keyser]

DVDFab Passkey (with a lifetime subscription) can also be downloaded at no charge until Dec 7.

I downloaded DVDFab Passkey and did submit my email address, but didn't recieve any registration key. Can you tell me how it works?

Thanks

[johns0]

Have you looked in your junk mail?How long ago did you submit your email address?

[Keyser]

Have you looked in your junk mail?How long ago did you submit your email address?

It's no in the junk. And I submited the email address a short while ago, but I thought the reply would be done automatically and right away. Maybe that's not the case. I'll wait for it.

[usually_quiet]

Have you looked in your junk mail?How long ago did you submit your email address?

It's no in the junk. And I submited the email address a short while ago, but I thought the reply would be done automatically and right away. Maybe that's not the case. I'll wait for it.

As I recall, the email arrived the same day, but not immediately. There is an attachment in the email which downloads the key. I can't recall how I entered it.

[fritzi93]

I already have DVDFabPasskey, but I put in for the free lifetime giveaway.

That was 12 hours or so ago, and only just now has the email with the key arrived.

[johns0]

Have you looked in your junk mail?How long ago did you submit your email address?

It's no in the junk. And I submited the email address a short while ago, but I thought the reply would be done automatically and right away. Maybe that's not the case. I'll wait for it.

As I recall, the email arrived the same day, but not immediately. There is an attachment in the email which downloads the key. I can't recall how I entered it.

With the key you just click on it.

[OldNick]

HI.I ended up using DVD Decrypter and it did the job. I do know _what_ was happening when I was converting it to mp4 on my other tries

Thanks

Nick

[hech54]

I do know _what_ was happening when I was converting it to mp4 on my other tries

Already answered....you weren't using a decrypter to break the copy protection of the DVD.

[OldNick]

Not so sure. Both Handbrake and VLC claim to be ab le to decrypt, AFAICS. But one produced rubbish output (soert of maxi pixelated) and the other only produced the "voiceover" versions.

HENCE my question about whethe a protected DVD could behave like that...which nobody has addressed AFAICS. Forall I know the "maxi pixelation" is jusy some setting in Handbrake.

Nick

[Baldrick]

Not so sure. Both Handbrake and VLC claim to be ab le to decrypt, AFAICS. But one produced rubbish output (soert of maxi pixelated) and the other only produced the "voiceover" versions.

HENCE my question about whethe a protected DVD could behave like that...which nobody has addressed AFAICS. Forall I know the "maxi pixelation" is jusy some setting in Handbrake.

Nick

WHere does handbrake claim to be able to decrypt?

https://trac.handbrake.fr/wiki/SupportFAQ#stuckScanning:

b) Your source is copy protected. (HandBrake is not a ripper, it does not support removal of copy protection.)

Edit: Handbrake can rip with custom libdvdcss from VLC Media Player, http://www.online-tech-tips.com/computer-tips/rip-a-dvd/ . But it might not work with all DVDs.

[hech54]

Not so sure.

I'm sure......you weren't using a decrypter to break the copy protection of the DVD.

[Keyser]

The DVDFab Passkey giveaway is a total BS. First of all, you can't update to a newer version, because if you do it will revert to trial! Second, you have to install it before Dec 7 and cannot install it at a later time, for instance if you ever reinstall Windows.

[hello_hello]

HENCE my question about whethe a protected DVD could behave like that...which nobody has addressed AFAICS. Forall I know the "maxi pixelation" is jusy some setting in Handbrake.

You might have to wait a while before someone who's often opened protected discs with programs that aren't able to open them comes along, and done so enough to know if the copy protection would always cause programs to misbehave in the same way, because not too many here would be in the habit of doing it.

[hech54]

The DVDFab Passkey giveaway is a total BS. First of all, you can't update to a newer version, because if you do it will revert to trial! Second, you have to install it before Dec 7 and cannot install it at a later time, for instance if you ever reinstall Windows.

....just like every "Giveaway Of The Day" offer.....so what's your point?

[Keyser]

[....just like every "Giveaway Of The Day" offer.....so what's your point?

My point is why bother downloading and installing something that is completely useless...

[johns0]

The DVDFab Passkey giveaway is a total BS. First of all, you can't update to a newer version, because if you do it will revert to trial! Second, you have to install it before Dec 7 and cannot install it at a later time, for instance if you ever reinstall Windows.

Not true,i have updated it a few times already and reinstalled it on a fresh windows 7 install and it activates with no issues.

[hello_hello]

The DVDFab Passkey giveaway is a total BS. First of all, you can't update to a newer version, because if you do it will revert to trial! Second, you have to install it before Dec 7 and cannot install it at a later time, for instance if you ever reinstall Windows.

I just upgraded it and the registration window still tells me the DVD/Bluray licence will never expire.
It didn't seem to check online before accepting the registration key. I double clicked on the key and the registration window popped up immediately. I can't imagine that'd work any differently on the 8th Dec, but I'm going to submit a second email address to get a second key for a relative's computer. I'll leave it until after the 7th to install that one to see what happens.

I've never used or even seen DVDFab Passkey until now. Did DVDFab rip off AnyDVD or did AnyDVD rip off DVDFab or it is just co-incidence the two programs seem so incredibly similar?

[Keyser]

Not true,i have updated it a few times already and reinstalled it on a fresh windows 7 install and it activates with no issues.

I just gave the information that was stated at http://sharewareonsale.com/

I've never used or even seen DVDFab Passkey until now. Did DVDFab rip off AnyDVD or did AnyDVD rip off DVDFab or it is just co-incidence the two programs seem so incredibly similar?

I don't know if anybody ripped off anybody, but AnyDVD is around since July 2003 so it's much older than Passkey.

[hech54]

I've never used or even seen DVDFab Passkey until now. Did DVDFab rip off AnyDVD or did AnyDVD rip off DVDFab or it is just co-incidence the two programs seem so incredibly similar?

All I know is I've never had any luck running AnyDVD and opening a DVD with DVDShrink.....with Passkey I am batting 1000 with all of my wife's recent "Honey Do" DVD projects/backups.

[Baldrick]

Not so sure. Both Handbrake and VLC claim to be ab le to decrypt, AFAICS. But one produced rubbish output (soert of maxi pixelated) and the other only produced the "voiceover" versions.

HENCE my question about whethe a protected DVD could behave like that...which nobody has addressed AFAICS. Forall I know the "maxi pixelation" is jusy some setting in Handbrake.

Nick

Did you use the libdvdcss from VLC Media player in Handbrake? See http://www.online-tech-tips.com/computer-tips/rip-a-dvd/ . But it might not work with all dvds...

[davejavu]

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[ron spencer]

copy the DVD files to my HDD.Filed due yto encryprion.

#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
printf("Cannot rip: user is on drugs.")
return(0)
}